Sydney's a Purple Caterpillar

Sydney has offically become a "pre-schooler" she started ast Jenny Hart as a Purple Caterpillar (3yr. old room) and has 2 wonderful teachers Ms. Laurie who shares her love of all animals and bugs and Ms. Michelle who is here "shop till you drop" fashionista sista , so in other words all bases are covered and they can tag team her and whip her into shape :) Ms. Laurie, Syd And Ms. Michelle

Sydneys' favorite thing to do at school (besides helping to feed Kobe the Gecko) is painting

and it's great to spend the morning in mommy's class

and of course the playground

Summer Catch Up

Well I totally dropped the proverbial "ball" and completely ignored the blog so now it's time to play catch-up so here is our summer in a nut shell....

We had lots of fun with friends...

Went to the beach...

Had lots of yummy lunch dates

Worked in our garden which provided lots of wonderful veggies this summer

spent plenty of time in the pool

and took many, many Disneyland trips

and started our bi-monthly library trips

All in all it was a wonderful and busy summer, thank you to everyone we were luckily enough to spend it with!!

Ontario 4th Of July Parade

We spent Saturday morning on Euclid watching the Ontario 4th of July Parade it was a fun little parade and Tatiana even marched in it.
being a silly goose

Chaffey High Marching Tigers

Tatiana in the rifle line (and she didn't even drop) Syd waving to all here "tiger" friends

Papa's 60th Birthday

We had so many celebrations in the last 2 weeks and this one was another GREAT one Papa turned 60 on the 1st so to celebrate we had a nice little party at his house in Alhambra. Complete with great family , friends and food! Papa and Grammie with all the Gran-girlsFinally an Erwin family picture

Syd and Papa dancing the night away

Discovery Science Museum

A few weekends ago we were able to go visit the Discovery Science Museum. We had a great time with the Grammies and learned all about some funky body functions in the new Gross-ology exhibit. playing a giant game of operation

Sydney also loved the Tinker Toy exhibit

and we had to check out the dinosaur quest

Tatiana even layed on a bed of nails

Ladybug Pool Party

So we waited until the end of June to have Sydney's "official" Birthday Party (we wanted to make sure it was nice and warm for the pool). When the time came for planning Sydney informed me that she was going to have a Ladybug party...so of course that's what we had. It was a great theme and surprisingly easy to do! And of course what's a pool party with out BBQ so that was on the menu. Every one had a great time and the weather was fantastic!!

All the girls hanging in the pool


it was a great turn out.

Papa and Grammie helping Sydney blow the candles out on her ladybug cake

and Sydney was so sweet she let her best buddy Casey help with the opening of her presents

Sydney K is 3

I can't believe how fast time flies it seems like just yesterday she was a tiny little bug, but now she is this beautiful,(opinionated, bossy diva) little girl. We actually have a party planned for the end of June but the day of her "real" birthday we made a ladybug cake (per Syd's request).